Business Analyst - Commercial Banking

$120-160k base + bonus

Hybrid NYC

Our client is looking for a hands-on business analyst to work across front & middle office, trade finance, payments and messaging on IT projects. The ideal candidate will have experience working across various businesses in order to gather requirements, create technical and business requirement documents and own on execution and delivery of projects.

Key Responsibilities of Business Analyst

Be the SME of a business line technology team responsible for owning and executing delivery of solutions to address the business' needs.

Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand the business objectives and functional requirements necessary to perform their roles efficiently and effectively.

Elicit, capture and interpret business problems from multiple perspectives; present implications and recommendations with strategic perspective, influencing project parameters and outcomes.

Perform requirements gathering, solution design, functionality development, user acceptance testing, training, and deployment.

Develop requirements, write user stories, and design user interfaces of any new functionality that can be understood and built by the development team.

Understand the data model and architecture, and define data structures to enable new system functionality.

Evaluate the suitability of existing/potential tools to fulfill business needs.

Closely collaborate with Business Management, Information Technology, and outside vendors to develop and implement new applications and tools for use by the business.

Act as primary point of contact / SME for the domain on key functional topics and business projects.

Requirements of Business Analyst

• 5 years of BA experience within commercial investment banks
• with ACBS and TI Plus applications
• acting as a Lead BA on projects
• SQL experience
• experience
• with Financial Accounting or reporting systems and payment systems a huge plus